Chasing truth through literature

A prize-winning author from Belarus uses interviews to scratch below the surface of history, she tells Yang Yang on her recent China visit.

Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 Nobel laureate of literature, toured Shanghai, Beijing and Suzhou in August.

The last time she visited China was in 1989, as a member of a delegation from the Soviet Union. China has changed tremendously, she says.